Commercial Manager - Protection / Life Insurance

Job Description

We want to give our people the best possible opportunity to develop their career and talents with Moneysupermarket Group.

Before applying for a vacancy please ensure you have let your Manager know, as they will receive a notification about your application.

Moneysupermarket Group’s mission is to help households save money, we supply products from over 800 financial providers to more than 24 million unique monthly visitors, helping UK households save approx. £2bn each year, something we’re incredibly proud of. However, our market is highly competitive and our customers deserve even more, so we’re constantly improving our platform, products and ways of working.

We are looking for a Commercial Manager to come and join our us. You will play a pivotal role in the success of our Protection Insurance channels (Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Income Protection, Over 50s and Critical Illness cover) on Moneysupermarket and Quidco, one of the UK’s leading cashback sites!

One of the best parts of being in team is working with colleagues from across Data, Marketing, Tech, and Product & Design. We're kept on our toes, adapting to external market changes and partner demands. Operating in a fast-paced environment, with new challenges every day, the team is quick-thinking and results-focused.

About the role

This is a varied role allowing you to work on key initiatives, such as on-boarding new partners, securing customer incentives and selling promotional marketing placements. It provides a chance to lead relationships with multiple insurers, project manage initiatives and support on product development, drawing on your commercial acumen and analytical skills. You will help deliver the long-term channel strategy, balanced against a focus on activities which help us grow performance in-year.

This role will give the right person the opportunity to deliver on the Protection Insurance strategy and will provide exposure to all levels of our business and external partnerships.

What will you be doing?

• Support the day-to-day performance and trading of the Protection Insurance channel, working with internal and external partners to deliver budget.

• Sell promotional tenancy placements to insurance partners. Review performance to ensure deals work for users, partners, Moneysupermarket and Quidco

• Lead commercial and contract negotiations with our insurance partners.

• Understand market insights to highlight potential growth or new opportunities.

• Build and maintain a strong working relationship with the Product team to optimise the customer experience alongside our external partners.

• Use data insights to understand current performance and identify future channel and market trends.

• Build close working relationships with internal business partners in Finance to continually monitor the financial performance of the Pet channels.

• Work closely with our Marketing colleagues to identify growth opportunities for the channels and to manage day to day performance.

• Work closely with Risk, Compliance, and Procurement to ensure third party relationships are managed in line with MSMG processes.

About you

• Excellent external relationship management and negotiation skills.

• A high level of analytical ability, able to translate data into actionable insight to generate growth and new opportunities.

• Highly motivated to deliver channel plans and results.

• Able to work autonomously, setting your own agenda and priorities on a day-to-day basis, while also working with the wider Life team.

• To be a self-starter with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities to tight deadlines.

• Commercially astute with an ability to understand key trading levers and performance drivers.

• An understanding of Product development.

• Confident communicator and able to make complex issues understandable.

• Excel skills, including formulas, look ups, and pivot tables.

We're an inclusive, anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education and way of thinking. We’re a place where you can be you.

Our customers and users come from different backgrounds, as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone, and particularly encourage women and Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as we’re actively building representation that’s more closely reflective of the communities we serve. If you’re passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know anything before applying such as more on the location, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know, and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Laura, at laura.hughes@moneysupermarket.com

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The Career Level for this position is:

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Career Level C